necoandjeff wrote:
> Rykk wrote:
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>> Rykk wrote:
>>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>>> Rykk wrote:
>>>>>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>>>>>> Rykk wrote:
>>>>>>>> Mr. Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "Michael Cash" <mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> wrote in
>>>>>>>>> message news:k980t0hhmfdi4fpu78lqkg3bn17vp34dop@4ax.com...
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:44:04 +1000, windsor <fake@none.com>
>>>>>>>>>> brought
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Depth of rapport with the interviewer is also important.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> That's a very pleasant way of rephrasing "sucking up".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> that's silly, "sucking up" is usually a poor way to impress
>>>>>>>>> someone at an interview. It usually means you don't have
>>>>>>>>> anything interesting to say and you are easily intimidated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Unfortunately that would be me.  Not that I am so much
>>>>>>>> intimidated the person as by the act of attempting to establish
>>>>>>>> rapport.  It isn't that I have nothing to say either, but that
>>>>>>>> I am completely uninterested in all non-functional
>>>>>>>> conversation. So as long as the conversation is pertinent I do
>>>>>>>> fine.  But if it turns to something trivial such as the
>>>>>>>> weather, or personal, "I had a baby yesterday," then I am
>>>>>>>> filled wave of disinterest. I have absolutely no idea how to
>>>>>>>> respond to these completely irrelevant remarks.  Interviews
>>>>>>>> seem to involve one non-sequitor after another.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow. Aren't you supposed to preface a confession like that with
>>>>>>> something like. "Hi, my name is Rykk and I'm a suffering
>>>>>>> self-a-holic"...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Heh,  are you trying to imply that I'm conceited?
>>>>>
>>>>> No implication required. You said it quite clearly yourself I
>>>>> thought.
>>>>
>>>> Then you are just misunderstanding me and making assumptions.
>>>>
>>>> I fail to see how being disinterested in non-functional
>>>> conversation equates to conceit.
>>>
>>> "But if it turns to something...personal...then I am filled wave of
>>> disinterest." It seems you are only interested in talking about what
>>> you deem to be worthy of conversation rather than what someone else
>>> considers worthy. Doesn't that suggest a little me-ism at work?
>>
>> It should suggest nothing of the sort.  It isn't as if I want to talk
>> about myself.   I just want to keep conversation to a minimum.  I'm
>> not one of those people that enjoy talking or being talked to.
>
> Exactly the kind of thing the interviewer wants to know...

I never said it isn't.  I'm just saying that I have a hard time developing 
rapport because of it.